The Leafs are back home from sweeping the California road trip and look to continue that success against the Columbus Blue Jackets tonight.

Their first sweep in California since 1995, the Leafs look red hot and ready to face a surging Columbus Blue Jackets team. This Tortorella-led team have earned twelve of their last fourteen possible points in the standings, so they have certainly bounced back from what looked like to be a rough start.

Thanks to Artemi Panarin and the puck luck of Cam Atkinson, the Blue Jackets are right where most preseason predictions had them.

Unfortunately for them, so are the Leafs. After a few unfortunate games and the mainstream media panic, the Leafs are back on their bullshit. Winning games and scoring some damn goals.

The Blue Jackets are a very top-heavy team, relying on their stars to really get the job done and do not have a ton of offensive depth. So, I wonder what Tortorella will yell about after the Leafs beat them.

The lines stay the same, but probably the most notable piece of news to come out on gameday is that Auston Matthews is now practicing without a non-contact jersey. Just one small step closer to being back and most of our worries will go away.

The Hyman-Tavares-Marner line has no doubt been their best line as of late. On the season, they have scored a total of 15 goals at 5v5, while their opposition has only scored 6. Those 15 goals for places them third among all lines in the NHL.

On the backend, the Leafs stay solid as well. The Rielly-Hainsey pairing has been considerably better than expected from the year’s start. At even-strength, the Leafs have scored a total of 16 goals while they are on the ice, tied for second among all defensive pairs in the league.

For some strange reason, Scott Harrington is still playing in the NHL. The once-Leaf has been absolutely atrocious this season – a sub-40% 5v5 CF% is tough to come across at this stage of the season, but he has one.

The top line of Panarin-Dubois-Atkinson has been incredible to start the season. As stated before, they are really a primary reason that the Blue Jackets are even in the top-10 of the NHL right now. In just 19 games, Panarin has 15 5v5 points, and that line is just below the Leafs first line in the amount of 5v5 goals they have scored.

As predicted, Seth Jones is great now that he’s back. Also, Markus Nutivaara leads the league in best names to say out loud – he’s also good too and leads the Blue Jackets in GAR.

Andersen has been absolutely incredible the past few games. He has not had a single-game save percentage dip below .933 since the game against the Stars more than two weeks ago. He will look to continue his hot streak against a pretty hot team.

One of the best goalies in the league for a few years now, Bobrovsky is coming into Toronto against a team he has generally had success against. For his career, he is 9-3 against the Leafs but has only faced them once in the last three seasons.

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